Cherry Valley Country Club
Skillman, Somerset County, New Jersey · Greater Princeton golf market
- Access
- non equity
- Holes
- 18
- Architect(s)
- Rees Jones, Keith Evans
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Cherry Valley Country Club is the clearest case in Greater Princeton of a golf club genuinely built into a planned residential community rather than merely sitting near one. The surrounding Cherry Valley development in Skillman (a section of Montgomery Township, Somerset County -- not Mercer County, despite the area's informal association with 'Princeton') is a real, well-documented planned community of roughly 495 single-family homes dating to the mid-1990s, with an internal age-restricted enclave, Clubside at Cherry Valley (89 homes, established 1999, 55+), and a homeowners' association governing open space, pedestrian pathways, and common areas.
The club itself -- an 18-hole, Rees Jones/Keith Evans-designed course that opened in 1991 -- is operated by Invited (formerly ClubCorp), the national private-club management company, on a non-equity, application-based membership model. Crucially, membership is explicitly marketed as available to both Cherry Valley homeowners and to the broader public, not bundled into or required by a home purchase. That distinction matters for buyers: Cherry Valley reads as a genuine golf-community address, but owning there is a real-estate decision, not a club-membership one.
Golf & Course
The 18-hole course, designed by Rees Jones with Keith Evans as co-designer, opened in 1991. Reported yardage varies by source -- Rees Jones Inc.'s own project page lists 6,918 yards at a par of 72, while a separate Invited-published figure lists 7,103 yards -- a minor but real discrepancy this research could not resolve from available sources. The layout is described as featuring open fairways on the front nine and wooded, elevation-changed terrain crossing Bedens Brook on the back nine.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Cherry Valley offers a spread of membership tiers, from a roughly $1,000 enrollment fee with $240-$325/month dues (Social/Fitness-level access) up to a Full Privilege membership with a $10,000 initiation fee (or a $2,500/year, five-year payment plan). Both Cherry Valley residents and outside applicants can join on the same basis -- there is no special resident-only tier and no requirement that homeowners join at all.
Living in Cherry Valley Country Club
The Cherry Valley Country Club community is a planned development of roughly 495 stand-alone single-family homes built out from the mid-1990s, with open-space lands, pedestrian pathways, and shared neighborhood common space. A distinct age-restricted sub-community, Clubside at Cherry Valley, sits within the larger development: 89 stand-alone homes, established 1999, restricted to residents 55 and older.
Location & Surrounding Area
Cherry Valley sits in Skillman, a section of Montgomery Township in Somerset County -- north of Princeton proper and across the county line from Mercer County, though the area is commonly grouped with 'Greater Princeton' given its proximity and shared identity with the Princeton golf-living corridor.
Costs & Fees
Figures below are labeled Current only when the source itself frames them as presently accurate. Everything else is labeled Historical — a source checked today does not make an old fee a current one.
Golf membership initiation
Historical$10,000
Full Privilege membership initiation fee as listed by Invited (club operator); club also offers a $2,500/year x 5-year payment option. A separate, lower $1,000 enrollment fee applies to entry-level Fitness/Social tiers.
Initiation (range low)
Historical$1,000
Entry-level enrollment fee (Fitness/Social tiers).
Initiation (range high)
Historical$10,000
Full Privilege membership initiation fee.
Annual dues
Historical$3,900
Computed from the club's stated top-tier (full fitness access) monthly dues of $325/month x 12; lower tiers run as low as $240/month ($2,880/year). Not a club-published annual rate sheet.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Course yardage conflict (6,918 vs. 7,103 yards) across sourcing.
- Whether the community is formally gated (mixed signal from aggregator real-estate sources, not confirmed by a primary source).
- Current, club-confirmed initiation fee and dues schedule (figures here are from the club operator's own membership page but should be reconfirmed for currency).
Notable
- Anchors a planned community of roughly 495 single-family homes, plus the internal 55+ Clubside at Cherry Valley sub-community (89 homes, est. 1999).
- 18-hole course designed by Rees Jones with Keith Evans, opened 1991.
- Operated by Invited (formerly ClubCorp) on a non-equity membership model open to both residents and non-residents.
- Located in Somerset County (Montgomery Township), not Mercer County, despite its informal 'Greater Princeton' association.
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